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The Brief for July 17
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Compilation of Texas news by John Reynolds at the Texas Tribune.
John Reynolds, Texas Tribune 07/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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State Spent $14.3M Plugging and Cleaning Up Abandoned Oil Wells
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The Texas Railroad Commission has spent $14.3 million plugging abandoned oil and gas wells and cleaning up contaminated drilling sites during its current fiscal year, which ends Aug. 31. The commission has plugged 428 such "orphaned" wells and conducted 117 site remediation and cleanup projects so far this fiscal year. Five of the plugged wells were offshore.
Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Business Journal 07/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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U.S. Consumer Watchdog Floats Publishing Customers' Banking Stories
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The U.S. consumer finance watchdog on Wednesday proposed publishing on its website individuals' stories about bad experiences with credit cards, student loans and other financial services, prompting quick pushback from banks. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau already posts basic details of consumer complaints about an array of products. Now, the agency wants to include customers' full explanations of what happened.
Reuters, Reuters 07/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Post Drilling Clean-Ups Rare in Louisiana
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Louisiana landowners and big oil companies have been locked in a legal stalemate for the last decade over how to fix environmental damage caused by oil and gas operations across the state. Both sides claim they are highly motivated to clean up damage to Louisiana's delicate marshlands and underground aquifers, but New Orleans WWL-TV has taken a closer look at so-called "legacy lawsuits" and found that full-scale cleanups are hard to come by.The legacy lawsuits have become a billion-dollar problem in Louisiana, but one that rarely gets solved because powerful legal and political forces create a framework in which cleaning the environment is rarely beneficial to either side, WWL has found.
David Hammer and Mike Perlstein , WWL-TV, New Orleans, KVUE-TV 07/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Murder Lawsuit Seeks $1M from Landlord Defendant
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The estate of a woman from Portland, Oregon has filed a $1 million lawsuit against her landlord accusing him of murdering her. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court and alleges that the woman's landlord killed her on June 7 by blunt-force trauma to the head. The woman's body was found in the wall of the defendant's shed. He is being charged with murder, second-degree abuse of a corpse, unlawful use of a weapon and felon in possession of body armor and is awaiting a trial on July 31. The criminal case against him has not yet been concluded.
Aimee Green, The Oregonian 07/16/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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L.A. Woman Injured Atop Party Bus Files Lawsuit
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A woman from Los Angeles, Calif. has filed a lawsuit alleging her face was horrifically smashed by a tree branch while she was riding atop a party bus in October. The lawsuit was filed just four days after a teenage boy was killed when he hit a concrete overpass while riding atop a party bus from the same company. The lawsuit accuses the bus company of "failing to ensure sufficient clearance for passengers on the top deck, hiring competent and qualified drivers and failed to understand 'route awareness.'" The woman has had to pay over $20,000 out of her own pocket for medical expenses and her lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of damages.
Nina Golgowski, New York Daily News 07/16/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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NCAA: Mark Emmert is Wrong Witness in Wrongful Death Suit
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Lawyers for the NCAA and the family of a deceased Frostburg State football player are fighting over whether NCAA president Mark Emmert should testify in the wrongful death lawsuit. The NCAA is one of several defendants in the lawsuit brought by the family of Derek Sheely, who died in 2011 after suffering a brain injury during preseason football practice. The lawsuit claims Frostburg State coaches kept berating Sheely to continue practicing even though he was bleeding profusely from his forehead after multiple hits to the head over several days of practices. Sheely's family wanted the NCAA to investigate their son's death. The NCAA requires schools to provide concussion management plans, but doesn't enforce them. The NCAA has argued in the case that it has no legal duty to protect players since organizers of sporting events are not liable for injuries to voluntary participants when the risk of injury is obvious and foreseeable.
Jon Solomon, CBS Sports, CBSNews.com 07/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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N.J. Judge OKs $11 Mil. Award in Pelvic Mesh Mass Tort
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A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary has lost a bid to upend an $11.1 million verdict in the first bellwether trial over allegedly harmful pelvic mesh implants. Atlantic County Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee on Tuesday denied motions by Ethicon for a new trial and judgment notwithstanding the verdict that would have struck a jury award of $3.35 million in compensatory damages and $7.76 million in punitive damages from early last year.
David Gialanella, New Jersey Law Journal 07/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Products

 
GM Recalls Some Cars with Problematic Switches; Judges Others Safe
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GM last month recalled millions of vehicles with three different designs of ignition switches that could accidentally turn off the engine and disable air bags in a crash. But the automaker has concluded that more than 2 million other vehicles having exactly the same switches are safe. The vehicles which have not been recalled include fullsize crossovers such as the Buick Enclave and Chevrolet Traverse made from 2007 to the present, which share a switch with recalled late-model Chevrolet Camaros and Cadillac CTSs. Two other switch designs are in other sets of vehicles.
Paul Lienert, Reuters 07/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Studies See New Risks for Cholesterol Drug Niacin
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New details from two studies reveal more side effects from niacin, a drug that hundreds of thousands of Americans take for cholesterol problems and general heart health. Some prominent doctors New details from two studies reveal more side effects from niacin, a drug that hundreds of thousands of Americans take for cholesterol problems and general heart health. Some prominent doctors say the drug now seems too risky for routine use. say the drug now seems too risky for routine use.
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP, Yahoo News 07/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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